Kind Samaritan Pays Off All Overdue Lunch Fees At Hometown Elementary School

This hometown hero was inspired to "be the change" and wants you to be, as well!

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It’s difficult to comprehend, but an estimated 20% of kids in the United States of America live in poverty. In 2014, 13 million lived in food insecure households, meaning they weren’t sure when food would next be on the table.

For some families in the U.S. and elsewhere, school lunches are kids’ main sources of nutrition and calories. Unfortunately, when a family is unable to pay their child’s school lunch tab (-$25 is the usual limit), the children go hungry. Because this is a heartbreaking reality, a man named Jerry Fenton decided to pay some goodness forward when he returned to his hometown.

Last week, the kind samaritan visited Grimes Elementary School of Burlington, Iowa, and wrote a check for $700. That amount was enough to pay off the current $458 in lunch money debt, as well as buy lunch for a number of struggling students in the future. His compassionate gesture helped approximately 89 kids and their parents.

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